The Constitution of Armenia is our internal matter. Rubinyan to Hajiev

Azerbaijan's claims that the Constitution of Armenia prevents the signing of a peace treaty are denied by the principles on which the leaders of the two countries have agreed at least on a preliminary level. According to the report of "News.am", the Deputy Speaker of the Armenian Parliament, Ruben Rubinyan, said this at the session of the Diplomatic Forum in Antalya, responding to the statement of the Assistant to the President of Azerbaijan, Hikmet Hajiyev, that the Azerbaijani side is waiting for the clarification of the content of the Constitution of Armenia.

"The Constitution and the legal framework of Armenia are our internal affairs. This has nothing to do with the processes of achieving peace. Armenia has no territorial demands from Azerbaijan, it was stated many times even in the joint statements of the President of Azerbaijan and the Prime Minister of Armenia. In the draft peace agreement that is being negotiated, there are two points that have been agreed on at the bilateral level, at least initially. First of all, it is written in black and white that the countries recognize each other's territorial integrity, do not have and will not have any territorial claims against each other in the future. Second, countries will not rely on their domestic laws to avoid this agreement. The best way to convince each other that we do not and will not demand anything from each other in territorial issues is to sign a peace agreement," Rubinyan said.

According to Rubinyan, Hajiyev says that it is not a panacea. "As far as I know, Mr. Hajiyev likes to repeat that signing a peace agreement is not rocket science. I have to agree with him here. If we, at least at the management level, have confirmed it, then only technical work remains. "Unfortunately, we do not see the willingness of the Azerbaijani side to reflect these agreed principles on paper, but we hope that something will change," he said.